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(No Model.) 2 Sheets--Sheet 1.

P. E. WATTON.

PACKING STRIP.

No. 458 877. Patented Sept. 1,1891.

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FEALDON E. IVAT'ION, OF ALTAMONT, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE O. GOETTING, OF SAME PLACE.

PACKING-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 458,877, dated September 1, 1891.

Application filed November 29, 1890. Serial No. 373,079. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern: sockets and to fit freely the outside of the Be it known that I, FEALDON E. IVATTON, spring, thus hiding the part of the spring of Altamont, in the county of Effingham and which would otherwise be in view between State of Illinois, have inventeda certain new the strip 3 and part 2, upon that side. This 5 5 and useful Improvement in Packing-Strips, curved part 9 serves to stiffen the plate and Stops, &c., of which the following is a full, steady the strip 3. clear, and exact description, reference being In the form shown in Figs. V and VI the had to the accompanying drawings, forming tongue 1 consists of two similar plates side by part of this specification. side, having the semtcylindrical parts 9 op- IO This is an improvement on the invention posite each other, thus forming together a described in Patent No. 438,042, issued Octocylindrical bushing around the spring 7. This her 7, 1890, to myself and G. O. Goetting, for bushing serves to support the spring on both an improvement in window-sashes, 850. sides and prevents any of its coils entering The presentimprovement relates to certain between the parts 2 and 3, in which position 6 5 r 5 details of construction, which will be defined they would interfere with the inward movein the claims. ment of the strip 3. The bushing gives both Referring to the drawings, Figure I is a longitudinal and transverse support to the front View of a window-sash with the improvestrip and confines it to a direct inward and ment applied thereto. Fig. II is a front View outward movement to and from the part 2. 7o 20 of part of a side bar of the sash or packing- In Figs. VII and VIII the improvement is strip with a portion in section. Fig. III is a illustrated in its application to a door. 10 transverse section taken at III III, Fig. II. may represent part of the body of an ice Fig. IV is a transverse section taken at 1V IV, chest to which the door 2" is hinged at 11. Fig. II. Fig. V is a view similar to Fig. II, The packing strip or stop 3 is in the form of 2 5 showing the metal tongue of modified cona rectangular frame connected to the parts 2 struction. Fig. VI is a transverse section of the door'by-the tongue 1 and means of attaken at VI VI,Fig. V. Fig. VII is an inside tachment before described. The door is elevation of the door of an ice chest with the grooved or rabbeted out at 12 to receive the improvement applied thereto. Fig. VIII is a strip or stop. The body 10 has a flange 13, c transverse section of the door, taken at VIII against which the packing strip or stop closes VIII, Fig. VII, showing also part of the case as the door is shut, to make a tight joint bein section at the same planes. tween the door and the body 10.

The invention will be first described in the I claim as my inventionform shown in Figs. II, III, and IV, in which 1. The combination of the packing strip or 8" 5 the tongue 1 consists of a single plate, one of part 3, the part 2, tongue 1, with curved porwhose edges is inserted in a groove in the sashtions 9 connecting the parts 2 and 3 and workbar 2 or its equivalent and the other edge in ing in one or both of these parts, and a spring the packing strip or stop The tongue is forcing the.,strip or part 3 from the part 2, all

rigidly secured to one of the-parts 2 or 3 by substantially as set forth. 40 pins 4 passing through one of these parts or 2. The combination of the strip or part 3,

strips 3, Fig. IV, andis movably secured to the part 2,tongue 1, connecting the parts 2 and 3 other part or bar 2, Fig. IV, by pins 5 passing and consisting of two plates having curved through the bar and through transverse slots portions 9 and provided with slots 6 and the (5 in the tongue. The strip 3 is forced from connecting-pins 4 and 5, and spring 7, all ar- 5 45 the bar or other part 2 by any suitable spring ranged substantially as and for the purpose or springs 7, spiral springs being sholwn for set forth.

this ur ose. The springs rest in soc zets 8, I

madgin the parts 2 and 3, the axes of the FEALDON WAT sockets being in the plane of the tongue. The In presence of- 5o tongue is curved in semi-cylindrical form at R. M. FANOHER, these points 9, so as to fit the interior of the O. W. ZAHUVIO. 

